The use of depleted uranium weapons in the Balkans and Iraq has left a long-term legacy of cancers and birth defects among civilians
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Israel vs Palestine’s environment; The Economist and renewable energy; South/South collaboration; Central America braces for drought-linked food crisis
Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'
More proof that the U.S. military is the world’s worst and deadliest polluter
Iraq: Mission accomplished for Big Oil?
How the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq paved the way for Big Oil’s rise — and now for its possible fall
Israel’s environmental colonialism and eco-apartheid
By greenwashing the occupation, Israel hides its apartheid behind an environmentalist mirage, and distracts public attention not only from its brutal oppression of the Palestinian people, but from its large-scale degradation of the earth upon which these tragedies unfold.
Worse Than Hiroshima: The Toxic Legacy of the U.S. Assault on Fallujah
“To produce an effect like this, some very major mutagenic exposure must have occurred in 2004 when the attacks happened” (more…)
Climate Catastrophe and Israel’s Denial of Palestinian Access to Water
Two aspects of contemporary barbarism … (more…)
Nile Delta: "The rising sea will conquer our lands."
Even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth. (more…)
Israel's Discriminatory Water Policies Leave West Bank Dry
Per capita water consumption in Palestine is far below the minimum recommended by the World Health Organization (more…)
Global Warming and the Iraq War
In 2006. the US spent more on the war in Iraq than the whole world spent on investment in renewable energy. (more…)
Iraq and Climate Change
When our grandchildren and more distant descendants assemble in such classrooms as may be available and ask their teachers, “Why did our ancestors not take effective action to prevent the catastrophic effects of climate change?” one of the answers will surely be, “The war in Iraq.” (more…)
Global Warming Threatens the Nile Delta
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